Poetry 4. Brendan Behan - Augustine Martin 5. A great big Lollipop - Richard Kell 6. Poetry 7. The metal man - Patrick Boyle 8. Yeats, Ireland and Ezra Pound - Peter Faulkner
Poems 4. Memory's Murphy Maker - Brian Coffey 5. The fortune teller - Thomas MacIntyre 6. Little Chandler and Byron's "first poem" - Maurice Harmon 7. Young Magdalen and the pharisee - Thomas Kilroy
Bridges and blossoms by the river - Jack McQuoid 4. Two artists - John Hewitt 5. An afternoon with the artist - Leland Bardwell 6. Nadezhda Mandelstam - Leland Bardwell 7. The writer and the troubles - Seamus Deane 8. Guilt - Diarmaid O'Suilleabhain 9. Wheels slowly turning - John Montague 10. Thunder and after - Sean Lucy 11. Fear - Eleanor Murray 12. Meditations on the suspension of stormont - Shaun Traynor 13. The politics of Yeats's theatre - Denis Donoghue 14. Duel - J.J. Coughlan 15. Bargains in barren places - Augustus Young 16. Song to cait - Gregory O'Donoghue 17. The daughters singing to their father - Paul Durcan 18. Dr. Plantagenet Higgins - Paul Durcan 19. Boxing the fox - Pearse Hutchinson 20. European prayer - Pearse Hutchinson 21. George Shiels-Playwright at work - David Kennedy 22. Lucy Gray - Roy McFadden 23. A young lag - Roy McFadden 24. A bit of skirt in a taxi - Joseph Biggar 25. Neighbour - Robert O'Donoghue 26. I. M. Cesar Vallejo - Michael Smith 27. Such good friends - Ita Daly 28. Origins - Frank Ormsby 29. Succession - William Peskett 30. Roma - Eugene McCabe 31. St. John Ervine-biographical note - John Boyd
The Tollund man - Seamus Heaney 4. Excerpt from a play - Derek Mahon 5. Farewell to the anglo-irish - Andrew Whittaker 6. Poems - Frank Ormsby 7. Resurgam - Nicholas Round 8. Barricades - Francis Mulhern 9. The family next door - John Hewitt 10. An open letter - John D. Stewart 11. The coasters - John Hewitt 12. Now and then - Brian Moore 13. A marcher looks back - Eoin Sweeney 14. From a sequence for Ulster - Tom McGurk 15. A googy-eyed view - Michael Foley 16. The old coach road - Seamus Deane 17. From no truck - Michael Friel 18. Poems - Michael Foley 19. Betting in Derry - Seamus Deane 20. A new siege - John Montague
Sally - Patrick Boyle 4. The bread god - John Montague 5. The brothers - Redmond O'Hanlon 6. The influence of natural objects - James Simmons 7. Poems - Michael Longley 8. Fond mother - Mary Lavin 9. Death bed - Thomas Kinsella 10. A stone-age figure - Derek Mahon 11. The white flower - Hugh Bredin 12. Robert Kennedy - James Scott 13. Farmer - Geoffrey Squires 14. Jude - Elizabeth Walsh 15. Deborah Browne: an appreciation - T. P. Flanagan 16. The poet as watcher - Alan Warner 17. Kavanagh's arrival - Tom McGurk 18. Poems - Glyn Hughes 19. The poetry of John Hewitt - Seamus Heaney
The circus ring - Michael McLaverty 4. Death of an old lady - Louis MacNeice 5. Carrick revisited - Louis MacNeice 6. After hours - Brian O'Nolan 7. The weakness - Michael J. Murphy 8. Follower - Seamus Heaney 9. Scaffolding - Seamus Heaney 10. The spit of the Ould Da - Robert Harbinson 11. A tanner a time - John D. Stewart 12. The swathe uncut - John Hewitt 13. The first corncrake - John Hewitt 14. A vocation - Brian Moore 15. The funeral - Maurice Leitch 16. Stormy night - W. R. Rodgers 17. Armagh - W. R. Rodgers 18. Farewell to a kid - Anthony C. West 19. The new Scythe Blade - Jack McQuoid 20. Wheat - Jack McQuoid 21. The march morning - John Irvine 22. F. E. McWilliam - George McCann 23. Second letter to an irish novelist - Roy McFadden 24. Tom Hunter - Roy McFadden 25. Lucinda and the birds - Joseph Tumelty 26. Ballad of a marriage - James Simmons 27. In memoriam - Michael Longley 28. The oddity - Isobel McColl 29. Like Dolmens - John Montague 30. New boots - Joyce Cary 31. The casualty meditates - Stewart Parker 32. Revisiting Belfast - Robert Greacen 33. Among the ruins - Brian Friel 34. Neilly and the fir tree - John O'Connor 35. In Carrowdore Graveyard - Derek Mahon 36. White birds and black roses for you - Seamus Deane 37. The house in Jail Square - Benedict Kiely 38. The black north - Sean McMahon 39. Contributors
